6.5

CVE-2016-2392: canonical ubuntu_linux

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-2392DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2392
Published 16-06-2016Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-2392 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in canonical ubuntu_linux. EPSS estimates a 0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.42%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 11 · Related 9
DLA-1599-1MGASA-2016-0176OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1SUSE-SU-2016:0873-1SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1

Timeline

  1. 16-06-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The is_rndis function in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 does not properly validate USB configuration descriptor objects, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving a remote NDIS control message packet.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.42%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

36%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.42% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Canonical1 product
Debian1 product
  • qemu< 1:2.6+dfsg-1
Qemu1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.24 | < 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.1

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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